Baseline Magazine has an interesting article titled “Virtualization: Beyond the Buzz” that’s looks at some of the emerging areas in the virtualization space that go beyond server virtualization.
Clearly, we’re well down the path toward expanding the concept of virtualization beyond products such as virtual operating systems. What’s significant is how a whole class of products […]
Archive for March, 2007
Over on his ZDNet blog, Phil Windley is exploring the concept of virtual appliances.
I believe virtualization will have a big impact on regular computer users as well as how companies will do their computing. Lately, I’ve been thinking quite a bit about virtual appliances.
He’s giving a few virtual appliances a bit of tire kicking to […]
The Virtualization Daily Book Store is now online. This is intended to be a resource for books on Virtualization, Virtual Appliances (there aren’t any yet, but I’m betting some will appear soon), Utility Computing and anything else I think may be of interest to readers of this site.
The “How are you using Virtual Appliances” (see results) poll is closed, the new poll is “How many virtual machines do you have running?”. The last poll only received 54 responses, we can do better than that.
It’s time to close out the “How are you using Virtual Appliances” readers poll.
The results (54 responses)
41% For production deployment of applications
37% For evaluating software
17% Planning to use them in the future
6% What is a virtual appliance
What can we conclude from this? Not much really, but polls are fun.
At JumpBox we’ve also been running a […]
Over the past few days there’s been quite a storm brewing related to a conflict between VMWare and Microsoft. This was sparked by a paper VMWare posted criticizing Microsoft’s recent licensing changes.
Microsoft is trying to restrict customers’ flexibility and freedom to choose virtualization software by limiting who can run their software and how they can […]
Zimbra CTO Scott Dietzen has posted a short blog post announcing a Beta release of Zimbra 4.5 in a virtual appliance.
Software appliances promise to augment Software as a Service (SaaS) as an easier, cheaper way to use third-party software, especially by lowering the cost of managing independently changing subcomponents of a software “stack”—application logic, database, […]
VMWare has released the second beta of Fusion for Mac OS X. The most notable feature of this new release is limited games support, basically meaning they’re accelerating 3D video in a virtual machine. Support is currently limited to a small set of DirectX 8.1 based games, but it’s an interesting start.
One of the […]
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